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A meeting of representatives of academic libraries took place in the EU in Bratislava on Wednesday, 1 February, 2017. The subject of the meeting was to talk about possibilities of creating new detailed EPCA statistics in ARL library system. The current statistics are no longer sufficient. It was agreed that new, more detailed statistics will be produced using a new technology – ZEN.
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On 17 January 2017 our colleague Libor Piškula participated in Budapest FOLIO platform presentation. It is an EBSCO initiative of creating a new open platform based on modern technologies. For more information see folio.org.
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Our customers can already note the date of the ARL seminar in their calendars for 2017. It will last from 3 March 2017 to 4 March 2017. The seminar will take place at the frontier of the Czech Republic with Slovakia. The information was sent by mail, details and invitations will be sent out in time.
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GoPay payments are enabled in IPAC. Readers are through this new service able to pay the amount owed or increase their financial account directly in the My Account section in IPAC.
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We would like to express a big congratulations to The Research Library of South Bohemia and Moravian Library for being awarded The Library of 2016 by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for the project Obálkyknih.cz. It was our pleasure to participate in the project.
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Well-organized celebration by the round table on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of foundation of SPU library took place in grounds of SPU library in Nitra. It was organized in the spirit of balancing, and importance of academic libraries was highlited there, with mentioning SPU library as a shining example. The rector of the university also apraised that, and he granted a special award to the library. We also appreciate the library, especially its selflessness and enthusiasm of employees, and we gladly support the library as well.
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In connection with the upcoming new version of IPAC we organize a workshop, where its new look, functionality, changes in representation, administration and so on will be introduced. Details on the organization of the workshop will be sent by mail.
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Data conversion from UNIMARC to MARC21 in another two libraries is being finished in these days. It is Library of Karel Dvoracek in Vyskov and Museum of Czech Literature. Librarians in cataloguing department are trained to work in MARC21 as a part of the conversion process.
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Updates of hosting servers ARL were completed this month. Updates included virtualizations, upgrades of VMware, ESX2, Apache Web Server, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and others. As a result, the servers usage was distributed evenly. Day peak fell from 30% to 15%, night (backups) from 99% to 88% (the length of night backup is three times shorter now).
